Convoy of Hope

This project is curated and financed by Convoy of Hope (CoH), a faith-based humanitarian aid voluntary organisation from a Christian tradition which works with women across the world providing programmes aimed at social, economic, cultural and spiritual empowerment.

This proposed project aims to capitalise on important insights developed from a previous project which was completed by the PI for Convoy of Hope and identified a nexus of psychological and spiritual wellbeing (PWB and SWB) emerging from the interrelationship between both positive and negative religious coping, resilience and compassion in response to trauma and precarity (Baker & Cohen, 2023). 

The project aims to discover how compassion is perceived and what is its role in coping with hardship and empowerment among women who participate in humanitarian aid activities and those who deliver them.  

Objectives  

1. Create a qualitative research project to explore the role of compassion in the personal and communal Convoy of Hope journey. 
2. Seek to understand the role of compassion from a holistic perspective within an humanitarian care setting – namely psychologically, behaviourally, spiritually.
3. Multi-site engagement – garner the perspectives and cultural context of three sites of enquiry and engagement. 
4. Co-create research training opportunities with local teams and build up a sustainable network of localised and contextual research capacity and analysis for future deployment.